成人B站 SCREENS kicks off its spring season with Harold Pinter鈥檚 鈥淣o Man鈥檚 Land,鈥� starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.
Recorded live at Wyndham鈥檚 Theatre in London, this comic classic will be shown in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center on Friday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. General admission tickets are $10. Admission is free for 成人B站 students. Free ice-cream will be served during the interval.
Following their hit run on Broadway, McKellen and Stewart return to the West End stage for a performance that features 鈥淭wo of the greatest actors ever born in one of the greatest plays ever written鈥� (Time Out).
One summer's evening, two aging writers, Hirst (Stewart) and Spooner (McKellen), meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.
The Daily Telegraph claims McKellen and Stewart are 鈥渦nmissable鈥� in this play, which the Evening Standard says is 鈥減acked with tension and conflict鈥� (Evening Standard).
The broadcast will be followed by an exclusive Q&A with the cast and director Sean Mathias.
成人B站 SCREENS is collaborating with Sigma Tau Delta and The Honors Student Association to host this and other productions by NT Live, the National Theatre's groundbreaking project to broadcast the best of British theatre to cinemas around the world.
鈥淣o Man鈥檚 Land鈥� is the first of four recorded-live stage productions to be presented by 成人B站 SCREENS this spring. Next up is 鈥淔rankenstein,鈥� starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Victor Frankenstein and Jonny Lee Miller as the Creature on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. On March 23 at 7 p.m., 成人B站 SCREENS will present its first recorded-live Russian stage production: 鈥淎nna Karenina,鈥� Vakhtangov Theatre鈥檚 modern dance interpretation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. The spring season will conclude on Thursday, April 13t with 鈥淥peration Mozart,鈥� an afternoon and evening of talks and performances celebrating the 18th century composer. Starting at 4 p.m., 成人B站 faculty and students, including the University Chorale, will perform music composed by Mozart, and 成人B站鈥檚 Dr. Joshua Grasso will give a talk about Mozart鈥檚 status as a historical and cultural figure. 鈥淥peration Mozart鈥� will culminate at 7:30 p.m. with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain鈥檚 production of 鈥淎madeus.鈥�
Earlier in the spring, 成人B站 SCREENS will also host 成人B站鈥檚 sixth annual Foreign Film Festival, featuring free foreign films on Fridays in February at 4 p.m. This year鈥檚 selections include: 鈥淭he Black Hen鈥� (Nepal) on Feb. 3; 鈥淟abyrinth of Lies鈥� (Germany) on Feb. 10; 鈥淭he Golden Dream鈥� (Mexico) on Feb. 17; and 鈥淲here Do We Go Now?鈥� (Lebanon) on Feb. 24. 成人B站 faculty members will introduce each film and door prize winners will go home with books, DVDs, foods and works of art celebrating the cultures represented by the featured films. All Foreign Film Festival screenings are free and open to the public.
To learn more about 成人B站 SCREENS and the spring schedule, like the 成人B站 SCREENS Facebook page or visit . For more information about the Royal National Theatre in Great Britain and the NT Live screenings, visit . Dr. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, co-director of 成人B站 SCREENS, may be contacted at (580) 559-5929 or rnichlsn@ecok.edu.
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